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Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET

Chamber music, perhaps the most subtle and intimate form of musical expression, has inspired many great composers to create some of their most sublime compositions. In a five-session series, classical music expert Saul Lilienstein explores and analyzes some of the chamber repertoire’s masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Shostakovich, and others.


Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
In-Person Studio Arts Course

This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.


Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET
In-Person Studio Arts Course

Whether you want to work in digital or film, this course offers a solid foundation for new photographers ready to learn the basics. Topics include camera functions, exposure, metering, working with natural and artificial light, and composition.


Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET
In-Person Studio Arts Course

Learn to capture the depth of field, motion effects, and exposure you want by quickly making camera adjustments in the field. Topics covered include ISO, apertures, shutter speeds, exposure modes, metering modes, exposure compensation, and histograms.


Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET
Online Studio Arts Course

This class guides you through the process of creating a jeweled glass-and-bead mosaic mirror. Lectures cover historical perspectives, material review, and snapshots of contemporary decorative mosaic art.


Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET

For 46 years, director John Huston masterfully navigated the Hollywood system, offsetting conventional commercial assignments with deeply uncompromising personal projects. His films are stories of triumph and suffering, of anti-heroes and sociopaths, alcoholics, adventurers, and lusty rebels. Film historian Max Alvarez celebrates these achievements in a tribute filled with film selections and archival images drawn from the works of one of cinema’s greatest directing artisans.


Tuesday, January 28, 2025 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET

As he confronted the most violent and challenging war ever waged on American soil, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could neither feed nor fund their armed insurrection—ultimately dooming the rebellion led by Jefferson Davis. Historian and author Nigel Hamilton discusses how two Americans faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance and how Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last best chance to save the Union.


Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET

Horses altered the course of human history, says archaeologist William T. Taylor. He traces their origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes and discusses their domestication, the invention of horse-drawn transportation, and the significant shift to mounted riding. Drawing on archaeozoology, Indigenous perspectives, ancient DNA, and other new research, Taylor highlights the discoveries that have placed the horse at the inception of globalization, trade, biological exchange, and social inequality.


Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. ET

Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece—often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb—was the first major oil painting and the most famous artwork in Europe when it was completed in 1432. Across the centuries, it’s been attacked by iconoclasts, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, hunted by Nazis and Napoleon, rescued by Austrian double agents, and stolen a dozen times. Art historian Noah Charney highlights the altarpiece’s extraordinary story. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)


Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET

Does free-market capitalism promote economic growth at the expense of virtue and happiness? Steven M. Emmanuel, chair of the philosophy department at Virginia Wesleyan University, examines texts in the canonical literature of Buddhism that describe an ennobling form of economic activity that is compatible with moral and spiritual growth and promotes the conditions for a peaceful, prosperous, and happy society.


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